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K–12 Leaders Get Creative to Make the Case for Network Upgrades

EdTech Magazine

Two years ago, IT Services Director AJ Phillips needed to persuade her school board to purchase new network infrastructure, so she tapped her prior experience as an elementary school teacher and presented a show-and-tell. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out where K–12 schools can turn to secure funding for personalized learning programs.

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The Big 3's War Over EDU: A Comparison of Apple, Google, and Microsoft

techlearning

cross posted at www.bigguyinabowtie.com David Lockhart is an edtech presenter, speaker, advocate, and coach with over ten years' experience teaching high school social studies. Read his blog at bigguyinabowtie.com and follow him on Twitter @bigguyinabowtie. It could get there though if they keep making acquisitions.

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Participate.com: Your toolbelt for professional learning

NeverEndingSearch

Participate’s Jennifer Williams shares that the goal is to be the glue , pulling together the array of possible professional development options–edCamps, Twitter chats, workshops, conferences, PLN sharing, and more–into one uniform experience. Participate on twitter @participate. Quick links: Participate.com.

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with 'e's

They were surely an asynchronous form of instruction, a sort of same place - different time learning. By comparison, in its technology supported multiple formats, contemporary distance education is much more sophisticated. Earlier still, were the cave paintings of early man a primitive form of distance education?

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 This theory requires the student to passively accept information and knowledge as presented by the instructor (Pogue, 2009, para. Many teachers remember the days of steering students to educational internet sites and having them present reports in PowerPoint.

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10 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have

Educational Technology Guy

Office Suite Skills Productivity Apps - Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentation Tools, Note taking and organization apps - educators need to now how to create, edit, and modify documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. I learn so much from Twitter and Google+ because of the people and web sites I follow there.

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Six Powerful Motivations Driving Social Learning By Teens

MindShift

The students’ personal learning networks of friends, forum users, Twitter followers and Facebook friends provide a rich source of knowledge gathering when they are at home, but use of such networks is excluded from their classrooms. The ability to choose our collaborators is a key freedom hallmarking social learning.